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UK’s BAME unemployment rate rises as unions call for furlough extension
19/08/2021
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Zubair Karmalkar is a trainee reporter/researcher at International Employment Lawyer

The unemployment rate for black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) workers has risen at three times the pace of white workers, official UK figures reveal, amid renewed calls for the chancellor to extend the government-backed furlough scheme beyond September.